The Science of the “Yard Sale!!!” No doubt the day had been marvelous. So far it had all come together. The snow, the sun, the snow. It was epic, it was sick, it was radtastic, it was probably the best you’ve ever skied. That was until… Yard Sale!!! The yard sale is libel to strike at any time. In the back country. (preferable: less people around to see it.) In the park. (moderately undesirable: not really shameful but everyone has to wait and gets annoyed.) On a groomer under the lift (highly undesirable: maximum shame and certainty of heckling) There is something to the presence of a lift that seems to push skiers to their limits. To ride the fine line that resides between control and a massive explosion of limbs and […] Brains Andy Hays | March 5, 2020 10 Comments
VIDEO: Skier Wipes Out Just Above Crevasse | Tomahawks Right into It When you #tomahawkTuesday into Narnia (Jerry was unharmed, he crawled out on his own with his dignity still in tact) #ifyoudontknowdontgo #narnia #stelvioglacier // Jerry Hunter @elmigiulio A post shared by Colton // Jerry of the Day™ (@jerryoftheday) on Jun 19, 2018 at 7:42am PDT If I was to come up with a list of ‘worse places to wipe out’, […] SnowBrains | June 23, 2018 1 Comment
Mammoth Conditions Report: Perfect Park & Classic Corn Mammoth opens at 7:30am right now, which is very cool. The racer kids were loving it. We got on the hill by 8am but there was a large lenticular cloud that wouldn’t move. That cloud kept the snow hard until the sun finally moved past it at 10am. After 10am things got soft quick. The park was unreal. Kids were going nuts. Park laps only take 5 minutes and there are 2 sizable jumps. If you hit both jumps every run, you can hit 24 jumps per hour, which is nice. The park was good from 10am until closing at 2:30. So damn fun. “We were skiing laps so fast. I did so many things that scared me.” – Lewis The upper mountain was soft by 11am. […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | May 17, 2014 2 Comments
Swell Saturdays: Worst Wipe-Outs of 2012 Wipe out. It’s a highly subjective term. You wipe out on a 3-foot wave and it’s funny. You wipe out on a 30-foot wave and it could be deadly. The wipe outs in this video are generally of the latter. Some of these wipe outs aren’t too unlike ski and snowboard wipe outs. Tomahawks, face-plants, boards hitting you as you fall, 10-foot falls, […] Surf SwellBrains | November 2, 2013 2 Comments
Surfing Legend Laird Hamilton Tells CNN: “100-Foot Wave in Portugal Doesn’t Count…” Laird Hamilton is the Godfather of tow-in surfing. He pioneered it with friends in Hawaii using small, inflatable boats to tow each other into waves that were too big and too fast to paddle into. […] Surf SwellBrains | October 30, 2013 13 Comments
Swell Saturdays: How NOT to Surf Teahupo’o, Tahiti Teahupoo in Tahiti is a fiercely heavy wave. You don’t want to fall, period. But, if you’re gonna fall, there are some guidelines to follow. Billibong interviews some of the world’s best surfers for some tips on how to stay off the reef at Teahupoo. Some of the video footage of these wipeouts will make you cringe. “Teahupoo is one of the […] Surf SwellBrains | August 10, 2013 1 Comment
Swell Saturdays: Horrific Wipeouts and Open Tubes @ The Wedge, CA Last Week A rare, big, south, summer swell rolled into California last week and lite up The Wedge at Newport Beach, California. “The Wedge is a surfing, bodyboarding and bodysurfing spot located at the extreme east end of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California. During a south swell of the right size and direction, the Wedge can produce huge waves up to 30 feet (9.1 m) high.” – wikipedia The Wedge […] Surf SwellBrains | June 15, 2013 5 Comments
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